Ajahn Suchart, our professor in Muay Thai made trainer of the year! Congratulations Ajahn. Thank you for passing on Muay Thai to our instructors and continuing to support our school with everything you have.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

3 Month Gift: Our 3 Months for $150 gift started today, and is available till January 15th. This is a great way to tack on 3 months to your training, and an even better way to get a new student started. Pass it on!

Southside's Christmas party is this Saturday, the 17th! Don't miss out on great company, food and some demonstrations by their talented athletes!

York Muay Thai's Christmas party: speaking of talent, don't miss out on our Xmas party this Sunday, December 18th at Thai Plate- thaiplate.ca Awards, raffles, honoured guests, good food and people. What a way to end the year!!

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Dec 4:Celebrating the 84th Birthday of HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej- come out to this event where the Muay Thai community celebrates the King of Thailand's birthday. This special event has gyms from all over the city coming, so be there to represent! Food and demos. See poster and http://siamno1.com/events/upcoming/index.html for more info.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Sweaty went the full three rounds, showing the heart of a lion, but lost a unanimous decision to a strong opponent.

Tranny had a dominant first round with knees, but was unable to continue mid way through after a joint injury.

Durst rematched his last opponent for what was largely a repeat of their previous bout. His opponent was very game and much more aggressive this time. However, Durst once again had a dominant 3 round fight for a unanimous decision win.

Patrick fought last. His original opponent backed out. Luckily, our friends from Training Ground Mississauga had a fighter weighed in and ready to go at Patrick's weight. The two had a very technical first round of exchanges, until Patrick landed a strong teep to his opponent's jaw. His opponent was not knocked out, but did sustain a serious cut, which resulted in a TKO win for Fingers.

Lastly, our friend from Victory, Andrew Poon, could not compete against Zhang due to a health issue. Andrew was nice enough to make the trek down to show support for the Canadian athletes.

Congratulations goes to Noel Hussey from our friends at Training Ground. He won the USMTA amateur Heavyweight title via TKO in the first round. Opening up with some fast and hard kicks, then finishing the fight with a freight train of a 1-2.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Good luck to our fighters tmrw: Patrick, Sweaty, Durst, Zhang and Tranny. They are scheduled to take on their opponents in West Seneca on an amateur Muay Thai fight card! The team has been preparing hard...it's time to "throw down"!! *Zhangisms*

Also, the blue class is cancelled since most of the team will be away at that time for the fights.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

York Muay Thai and many other gyms around the GTA are now selling Pink Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Handwraps. Proceeds go to the CBCF. Band is free with purchase! The funds collected will be donated to the CBCF on behalf of the Muay Thai community.

A huge thanks goes out to PC Matt Perez from Southside for the idea and execution!

By popular demand, Warrior Caste Productions and the MPL have uploaded Into the Fire Episode 2 on Vimeo (featuring Bad Boy, whom most of you have seen or met).

Also, for a limited time, Ky Hollenbeck vs Jordan Watson is on the channel. It seems MPL has been uploading popular fights from their cards for short periods of time. Just a few days ago, they had Liam Harrison vs Khamal, whihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifch is now off the channel. Watch them while they are up!

Blue is one of the few gradings we have in our system of teaching. It pushes students' conditioning and tests their basic Muay Thai technique. These Blue students are now challenged to push themselves to develop further in learning, fighting, coaching and conditioning. With what we have seen so far, we expect all of them to make us proud :)

Monday, October 10, 2011

Thanks to Science Guy for hooking us up! Here's Fitocracy, the social game you play to level up your fitness.

It's pretty much a way to log your workouts, and get "points" that level you up. As you level up, you get quests (that challenge you to do progressively harder things and give you more points). It's basically an RPG for your fitness.

Yes, you can be lame and cheat and say you did a thousand push ups. But really, only you lose, cause your body will show it. And the really fit people will just hate on you harder. So don't be lame!

If you are interested, go to the invite link below, create a profile, then search and join the "York Muay Thai" group :)

Most everyone knows someone who has fought against cancer. More and more people are winning the fight. Raising awareness and giving support are things we can do to help win the fight against cancer.

Ajahn Suchart and his female students at Siam No.1 have organized a night to raise money to support the Princess Margaret Hospital.On November 12th at Siam №1 Woodbridge, strong female athletes from across Ontario will meet to demonstrate Muay Thai in the ring to support the strong women who fight breast cancer in their lives.

Please join us as we work together to celebrate the strength of women and to support the fight for the cure for breast cancer.

Doors open at 5:30 and festivities begin 7pm.-------------------------General tickets: $35------------------------- VIP tickets: $50-------------------------Round table seating WITH dinner $100 [or $1000 per table (10 tickets)]NOTE there are only FIVE ROUND TABLES for the evening.-------------------------Space is limited but donations are not. Tax receipts available.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Mike Zhang has been training hard for the upcoming Scotiabank marathon and has enlisted the help of a few others from our MT community to raise funds for Disabled Students at York University.

This is a great cause, so please support him or any of the other runners!

"Hey everyone!!!!

On Oct. 16, 2011, I will be participating in the Scotia bank Toronto Waterfront Marathon, Half-Marathon and 5k Run / Walk while raising funds for Disabled Students at York University. Support my charity group by pledging my team and me.

I feel that some of us take for granted how lucky we are to be heathly and fit enough to train muay thai. Let's come together as a team, and as people to encourage those less fortunate.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Here is Coban Lookchaomaesaitong vs. Noppadet Sorsamroeng. As most of you know, Coban was in town this weekend for the Muay Thai Expo, guest teaching with Ajahn Suchart and Ajahn Amnat. Ian and I had the opportunity to visit the expo for the first day to learn from these veterans.

For 45 years old Coban truly looks incredible. Complete with an 8 pack. Him and Ajahn Suchart standing next to each other is just amazing.

Here's a blurry phone pic of the two with me. I better look as good as they do at that age:

Many have seen it, but it's great to revisit. Many casual MMA fans know Jean Charles from his appearance on the Ultimate Fighter. Muay Thai fans know he was one of the toughest non Thai MT fighters around at his prime.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Tell your friends! New students for a limited time get 4 months for 299$ no tax! Perfect for the student who wants unlimited Muay Thai for the semester. Looking to get into Muay Thai in Toronto? Look no further!

Don't forget you can try a FREE trial week too! Get at us and let's make it happen :)

Monday, September 5, 2011

At 8pm on Sept 13, the full MPL event will be aired on the Score network for Canadians. If you didn't see the event on PPV please take the time and watch it next week or record it! We need to support this League as fans if we want to have a a good future for professional MT in North America. Trust me, the event will be worth the watch!

A thank you goes out to David Ip Yam for setting up a free outdoors demo class for Mclaughlin College with York Muay Thai. YMT gave these York University frosh a glimpse of padwork, a sample class, and of course a chance to win free swag!

Shout outs to the Mac frosh for doing push ups in the rain! Don't forget to come try out a full free class!